Serial Experiments Lain
Layer 02: Girls
"Accela, a type of 'smart supplement', uses nanomechanisms to oscillate at a specific frequency within the body, triggering the secretion of a certain hormone. It is said that, when secreted, this hormone affects the time-sense of the human mind, making it seem as if one's awareness is accelerated."
This episode leads us down into the seedy underbelly of Lain's world, and it's amazing how well it carries itself at the beginning, creating the mood and setting up the story with almost no dialogue. (It also seems to want to lead us into X-Files territory, but that's another story for another episode.
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The intrigue shifts into high gear when Lain's not-actually-friends guide her to a grimy cafe/nightclub called Cyberia. (Heer come the cyber funker?)
They claim to have encountered someone who looks like Lain when they were there previously, but this girl apparently had a very different personality — a claim very much backed up by the early scenes that we witness as viewers.
Then Lain assertively confronts the out-of-control Accela user, speaking in a stern, even threatening way that's unfamiliar to us, leading to the man's violent death by suicide, skilfully executed (if you'll forgive the unintentional pun) in a very low-key and soundless manner off-screen, leaving the vast majority of it to the imagination. What the imagination conjures, though, is horrible.
"To be continued..."
Layer 02: Girls
"Accela, a type of 'smart supplement', uses nanomechanisms to oscillate at a specific frequency within the body, triggering the secretion of a certain hormone. It is said that, when secreted, this hormone affects the time-sense of the human mind, making it seem as if one's awareness is accelerated."
This episode leads us down into the seedy underbelly of Lain's world, and it's amazing how well it carries itself at the beginning, creating the mood and setting up the story with almost no dialogue. (It also seems to want to lead us into X-Files territory, but that's another story for another episode.
)The intrigue shifts into high gear when Lain's not-actually-friends guide her to a grimy cafe/nightclub called Cyberia. (Heer come the cyber funker?)
They claim to have encountered someone who looks like Lain when they were there previously, but this girl apparently had a very different personality — a claim very much backed up by the early scenes that we witness as viewers.
Then Lain assertively confronts the out-of-control Accela user, speaking in a stern, even threatening way that's unfamiliar to us, leading to the man's violent death by suicide, skilfully executed (if you'll forgive the unintentional pun) in a very low-key and soundless manner off-screen, leaving the vast majority of it to the imagination. What the imagination conjures, though, is horrible.
"To be continued..."
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